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Examples

Mass suicide sometimes occurs in religious or cultic settings. Suicide missions, suicide bombers, and kamikazes are military or paramilitary forms of mass suicide. Defeated groups may resort to mass suicide rather than capture. Suicide pacts are a form of mass suicide unconnected to cults or war that are sometimes planned or carried out by small groups of frustrated people, typically lovers. Mass suicides have been used as a form of political protest. Various religious symbols Religion is a system of social coherence based on a common group of beliefs or attitudes concerning an object, person, unseen being, or system of thought considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine or highest truth, and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions, and rituals associated with such... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... A suicide attack is an attack in which the attacker or attackers intend and expect to die (see suicide). ... A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who knows the explosion will cause his or her own death in addition to the attacks primary purpose (see suicide, suicide weapons). ... Navy Kamikaze pilot with the rank of Lieutenant (Chui) receives orders, pilots stand at attention in formation. ... A suicide pact describes the suicides of two or more individuals in an agreed-upon plan. ...

Notable mass suicides

• During the late 2nd century BC, the Teutons are recorded as marching south through Gaul along with their neighbors, the Cimbri, and attacking Roman Italy. After several victories for the invading armies, the Cimbri and Teutones were then defeated by Gaius Marius in 102 BC at the Battle of Aquae Sextiae (near present-day Aix-en-Provence). Their King, Teutobod, was taken in irons. The captured women committed mass suicide, which passed into Roman legends of Germanic heroism: By the conditions of the surrender three hundred of their married women were to be handed over to the Romans. When the Teuton matrons heard of this stipulation they first begged the consul that they might be set apart to minister in the temples of Ceres and Venus; and then when they failed to obtain their request and were removed by the lictors, they slew their little children and next morning were all found dead in each other's arms having strangled themselves in the night.
• The 960 members of the Jewish community at Masada, who collectively committed suicide in the first century A.D., rather than be conquered and enslaved by the Romans. Each man killed his wife and children, then the men drew lots and killed each other until the last man killed himself.
• In medieval times, the siege of several towns, cities and forts by Muslim armies in northern India resulted in the practice of jauhar, where the men would ride out to fight to the last soul, and women would immolate themselves to prevent capture, rape and molestation.
• During the Ottoman occupation of Greece and shortly before the Greek War of Independence, women from Souli, pursued by the Ottomans, ascended the mount Zalongo, threw their children over the precipice and then jumped themselves, to avoid capture.
• In April and May 1945 about 900 residents of Demmin, Germany, committed mass suicide in fear of the advancing Red Army.
• Japan is known for its centuries of suicide tradition, from seppuku ceremonial self-disemboweling to kamikaze warriors flying their aircraft into American warships during World War II. During that same war on the island of Saipan hundreds of trapped Japanese committed mass suicide rather than surrender to the invading American forces. [1]
• The Jonestown suicides in Guyana, where 913 people died in 1978 under the direction of Jim Jones, an evangelist preacher and head of the Peoples Temple. Of the 914 dead, 276 were children and over 100 of the adults were murdered.
• The Order of the Solar Temple mass suicide killed 102 people in two towns in Switzerland in October 1994. About two thirds of the deaths were murders, including the ritual murder of a newborn.
• The Heaven's Gate mass suicide occurred in a hilltop mansion near San Diego, California, in 1997. They believed an alien spaceship was hiding behind the Comet Hale-Bopp and killed themselves in order to reach it. The victims were self-drugged and then suffocated by other members in a series of suicides over a period of three days. Thirty-nine died, most were in their 40's and came from a wide range of backgrounds. [2]

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Murder Suicide Plot

German psychologist and previously high-profile Brahma Kumaris Heidi Fittkau-Garthe was charged in the Canary Islands with a plot of murder-suicide in January 1998, in which 31 cult followers, including five children, were to ingest poison. After the suicides, they were told they would be picked up by a spaceship and taken to an unspecified destination.[3] This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

See also

• Cult suicide

Cult suicide is that phenomenon by which some religious groups, in this context often referred to as cults, have led to their membership committing suicide. ...

External links

• Cult Mass Suicide
• 39 men die in mass suicide near San Diego - CNN, March 26, 1997
• [4]Time.Com JANUARY 19, 1998 Near-Death Experience